Brooder.



A. ESSiG BROODER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 5, 1915 Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

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ANDREW ESSI G, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

BBOODER.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented Jan, 18, 191%,

Application filed April 5, 1915. Serial No. 19,132,

v ticularly to that class or type known as hot air brooders. c

The improved brooder is particularly designed and adapted to be warmed by top heat or hot air exclusively, such heat or hot air being formed in an improved overhanging heat receiving and distributing chamber, said chamber being particularly adapted'to uniformly maintain and distribute such top heat or air at any proper or desired temperature Within the subjacent broader chamber, and a further object is an improved breeder of this class which will provide for a proper circulation of pure air at all times Without injurious drafts or uneven temperature, and

also Without any danger of the odors or fumes arising from. the heater or lamp entering the brooder chamber.

A still further object is the provision of a generally improved breeder of this class which will be exceedingly simple in construction, cheap of manufacture, efficient in use, as Well as one better adapted to the intended and required purposes of such devices.

A stlll further object is the provision of an improved lamp or combustion chamber, as well as an improved brooder chamber permitting the chicks to pass to and from at Will.

With the above mentioned and other ends in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, hereinafter described, illustrated in one of its embodiments in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pomted out the" appended claims.

Referring to the dravvmgs forming a, parts lot this specification, Figure fa central vertical sectional view of a breeder ennstructed in accordance vviththis nvention,

, Fig. 2, a view partly in top plan, and partly like parts throughout all the figures of the drawings.

The improved brooder comprises a central foraminous compartment forming the lamp or combustion chamber 1, said lamp or com bustion chamber being provided with an overhanging inverted conical shaped head 2,

the latter being provided at its central or apex portion with a tubular flue 3, leading from the lamp or combustion chamber and being adapted to receive the heat from the flame of the heater or lamp burner 4, as shown.

As a means of forming an improved overhanging heat receiving and distributing chamber for distributing the h at or hot air from above the brooder chamber as hereinafter described, the tubular line or hot air con duit 3, is provided with a conical shaped head or hover 5, forming the top. or cover of the brooder'proper, said conical shaped head or hover 5, being spaced slightly above and beyond the outeredges of the head 2, and extending downwardly beyond the latter forming an intermediate hot air distributing an nular space leading from the hot air receiving and distributing chamber 6. The head or hover 5, is preferably provided with a horizontal plate or Wall 5", extending substantially parallel with the horizontal plane of the head 2, and it will be observed that the conical shaped head or hover 5, and plate or wall 5*, form conjointly with the inverted conical shaped head 2, the hot air receiving and distributing chamber 6, and. as a means of distributing the hot air from the tubular flue or conduit 3 into the upper central portion of the chamber 6, said flue or conduit is provided With outlget openings or ports 3*.

As a means oi? ventilating the heat chamber 6, as Well as carrying ofl any fumes of combastion, the dome-head 5, is provided with a pair of ventilating tubes 7 arranged on opposite sides of the fine or conduit 3, and

jleading co the central bottom portion of the heat receiving and distributing chamber 6.

' As a means of forming an annular brooder chamber 8, immediately beneath the annular heat distributing space, 5, leading from the hot air receiving and distributing chamber 6, above, the outer periphery of; the domeshaped head or hover 5, is provided with an outer depending skirted portion 9, said def" pendingzwall or skirt, antics lti ig ifildhly :15 12, the'top end of the lever or g I meaovi formed of cloth such as cotton fiannel, or the -jlilre, having its lower edges split as at 9, so

astoreadily permit or the ingress and egress of the chicks to and from thebrooder chain-' her 8, at y will.

As a means of regulating the temperature lot the air within the'brooder chamber 8, a

' suitable thermostat 10, is mounted beneath one side of the head or hover 5, said thermo- 1o stat being provided. with a threaded stem 10, provided at its outer end with a threaded Qadjusting member 10", adapted to bear against a pivoted valve lever 11, said lever being suitably mounted in a bearing bracket ivoted bar 11, being provided'with a pivote valve disk 13, adapted to open and close the top, portion of-the tubular flue or conduit 3, and to play or move about the'latter-with the action of the thermostat 10, and its threaded stem '10,

said valve disk, being also adapted to be counterbalanced-by means of counterweight '14:, at the lower end of the valve lever, said .weightbeing" 'adapted to be adjustably mounted whereby to'regulate thesensitiveness of the lever 11, and valve orfiue .\cover'13.' K I floor upon which the brooder is who mount odds preferably provided'with a protecting ringer base 16, adapted to receive'and contain the lowerend or base portion of the central compartment forming the lamp. or combustion chamber 1, the lamp 15, being firsttplaced centrally within the ring or'base flange 16;and the latter being suitably Y placed for this purpose, and as a suitable 'means of looking intothe brooder chamber,

as well as observing the flame at the lamp burner 4, suitable :peepholes 17,-and-17 'Inay be provided within the wall of the head or dome 5, and the lower" portion of the fine 3, respectively.

As a convenient means of cooling the lamp body and burner neck portions 'ofjthe lamp 1 5, the latter may bevnrovide'dat its top with f e-suitable water receiving reservoir ior'top 'acket l5, provided with a suitable opening i5, to receive and contain water as shown.-

\ From the foregoing des'cription, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the operation and advantages of my invention will be readily understood. 5 v I Having thus described one of the-embodimerits of my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,-

l. in a breeder, the combination withaoonical shap'ed hover provided with a con iii traily located hot air flue and an inverted r conical shaped member carried by said flue -=formin a hot air receivin ElIlflldlStl'lblltll'W i": to D chamber, said hover being spaced from the o it'er periphery of said inverted conical shaped member forming an annular hot air a convenient ineans of mounting the amp 15, within the broodenthe' grounder distributing space leading from said chamber and provided with adjustably mounted counterbalanced thermostatic valve mechanism adapted to automatically regulate the airpassing through said hot air fine.

2. In a brooder, a tubular hot air flue provided with outlet ports and carrying a pair of oppositely arranged spaced conical shaped members forming an intermediate hot air receiving'and distributing chamber, the upper one of said conical shaped members forming a hover provided with a dependingflexible skirt forming a brooder chamber beneath said hot air receiving and distributing chambenventilating 'flues extending through said hover and into the lower portion of said hot air receiving and distributingpchamber, a thermostat within said brooder chamber, and valve mechanism operatively conneoted with said thermostat ,85

and adapted to open and close said hot air i with a tubular hot air conduit provided with outlet ports adapted to discharge above said inverted conical shaped head and carrying a conical shaped hover extending above and spacedfrom the outer peripher of said head and provided with a depen ing skirt,

said hover forming I conjointly with said head a hot air receiving and distributing chamber having an annular distributing 0 space about its. outer periphery and said skirt forming conjointly with said lamp receiving compartment a brooder chamber adapted to receive hot air from above as discharged through said annular distributing space. g

i. In a breeder, a central'lamp receiving compartmentprovided with a hot air fiue,

said hotairfiue being provided with spaced conical. shaped members forming a com- 1 municatinghot air receiving and distributing vchamber, one of said conical shaped members extending outwardly above the other forming a hover and beingprovided with a depending flexible skirti'orming an annular brooder chamber about said lamp receivingcompartment and beneath said hot air receiving and distributing chamber, a

thermostat carried by said hoverlwi'thin said brooder chamber. and provided with an ad just-able actuating stem, a. counterbalanced valve lever mounted outside or" said hover in cooperative vrelationv to said [adjustable actuating stem, and a valve carried by said r val a ic or above said hot a1r fine and adapted toopenand close the same;

Afbrooder, comprisingajcentral lamp receiving i'oraminous compartment provided with an overhanging inverted coneshaped head, a tubular flue carried by said cone 136 shaped head and communicating with said lamp receiving compartment, a conical shaped hover carried by said tubular flue and spaced above and projecting beyond said inverted conical shaped head and forming conjointly therewith a heater chamber, said tubular flue being provided with openings leading to said heater chamber, and said hover being provided with ventilating flues leading to the central bottom portion of said heater chamber, an outer skirted portion carried by said hover and forming an annular brooder chamber surrounding said lamp receiving compartment and receiving hot air from said superposed heater cham her, and a thermostatic valve for opening and closing the top of said tubular flue.

6. A brooder, comprising a. central foraminous compartment forming a lamp ,(Sll'ill'llbfll, an inverted conical shaped head mounted above said compartment and provided with a tubular flue extending through the apexportion of said conical shaped head and projecting intov said lamp chamber, a conical shaped hover carried by said tubular flue and spaced from and projecting beyond the outer, periphery of said inverted conical shaped head forming conjointly with the latter a hot air receiving and distributing chamber, and an intervening heat distributing annular space, said hover being provided with ventilating flues leading to the lower central portion of said hot air receiving and distributing chamber and provided about its outer periphery with a depending skirted portion forming an annular brooder chamber surrounding said lamp chamber and beneath said hot air receiving and distributing chamber, a thermostat arranged Within said brooder chamber, and valve mechanism operatively connected with said thermostat adapted to open and close said tubular flue.

7. In a brooder, a central lamp receiving foraminous compartment provided with oppositely extending cone shaped members forming a hot air receiving and distributing chamber, said cone shaped members having their apex portions provided with and connected by a tubular hot air flue extending into said lamp receiving compartment and provided with hot air outlet ports communicating withsaid chamber, one of said conical shaped members forming a hover spaced from and extending outwardly over the other of said conicalshaped members forming an annular hot air distributing space leading from said chamber, a flexible skirt carried by said hover and forming an annular brooder chamber surrounding said lamp receiving compartment and spaced directly beneath said hot air distributing annular space, vertically extending ventilating flues arranged on opposite sides of said hot air flue and communicating with the lower central portions of said hot air receiving and distributing chamber, a thermostat carried by said hover within said brooder chamber, and counterbalanced valve mechanism carried on the outside of said hover in adjustable relation-to said thermostat and adapted to open and close said hot air flue.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ANDREW ESSIG.

Witnesses:

GEo. E. Knroxnn, F. C. ADAMS. 

